We covered the DLC at length when initial previews started flooding in. The coverage suggested that the expansion added several hours of gameplay into the mix, and a renewed focus on horror and scares. get the details and screens here:

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2013/03/12/dead-space-3-awakened-dlc-out-now-on-all-formats/feed/3New Dead Space 3 story DLC wasn’t built until after the vanilla game was finishedhttp://www.vg247.com/2013/03/07/new-dead-space-3-story-dlc-wasnt-built-until-after-the-vanilla-game-was-finished/
http://www.vg247.com/2013/03/07/new-dead-space-3-story-dlc-wasnt-built-until-after-the-vanilla-game-was-finished/#commentsThu, 07 Mar 2013 19:43:09 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=347147Dead Space 3’s Awakened DLC was announced around the game’s launch, and today we received some new details on it and it was dated for release next week, about a month after launch. That, understandably, has had some gamers crying foul. Visceral producer John Calhoun explains to Destructoid, though, that nobody at the studio began work on any DLC until after they completed the main game.

“Dead Space 3 is finished months before it’s actually sold, ’cause you have to go through manufacturing, certification, and all that stuff,” Calhoun said. “So in that time we a have team with nothing to do.

“It’s definitely not the case where we take a level, and just decide we’re not going to include it in the main game. This was not even part of Dead Space 3; it was developed by a smaller set of our team that were run with a different producer, and all that stuff. You’re looking at something that was wholly created as a standalone product.”

Does that answer put you at ease?

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2013/03/07/new-dead-space-3-story-dlc-wasnt-built-until-after-the-vanilla-game-was-finished/feed/2Dead Space 3: Awakened DLC lands March 12th, new screens and details insidehttp://www.vg247.com/2013/03/07/dead-space-3-awakened-dlc-lands-march-12th-new-screens-and-details-inside/
http://www.vg247.com/2013/03/07/dead-space-3-awakened-dlc-lands-march-12th-new-screens-and-details-inside/#commentsThu, 07 Mar 2013 14:45:39 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=347078Dead Space 3: Awakened is Visceral Games’ first story DLC pack, and it’ll land on all formats from march 12th. We’ve also just received a batch of screens.

Joystiq reports that Awakened sits within the game’s campaign, and sees Isaac and John Carver exploring the CMS Terra Nova’s tower, which is now teeming with savage cultists who have been performing grim human sacrifices.

Producer Shereif Fattouh told the site that it’s scarier than the core game which, luckily, fits in with the demands of the community, “We had a vision for what we wanted to make with our DLC.

“The nice thing about it is it kind of married into what some of the more hardcore community guys were asking for. They didn’t feel that there was as much horror as they would have liked [in Dead Space 3].

“It really fit well with what we were planning to do with this DLC [in] trying to create a creepy, scary atmosphere that we still think is a big part of the Dead Space franchise and has always been a part of it.”

The DLC is said to be several hours long, and it will throw new Necromorph and human enemies into the mix.

We’ll have more as the pack launches.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2013/03/07/dead-space-3-awakened-dlc-lands-march-12th-new-screens-and-details-inside/feed/4Dead Space 3 – Awakened DLC to release in Marchhttp://www.vg247.com/2013/02/05/dead-space-3-awakened-dlc-to-release-in-march/
http://www.vg247.com/2013/02/05/dead-space-3-awakened-dlc-to-release-in-march/#commentsTue, 05 Feb 2013 15:27:45 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=336783Visceral Games has announced the first DLC for Dead Space 3 will arrive in March.

Called Awakened, the DLC will contain some of the “darkest chapters as the Necromorph battles become even more gruesome and terrifying than ever before.”

The pack will be available in March through Origin, PSN and XBL for $9.99/800 MS Points.

Dead Space 3 is now available in North America and will be available February 8 in Europe.

A reviews round up is here, and you can read Stace’s take on the game here.